Christina Ebner was born in 1277 at Nürnberg to the noble Nürnberger patrician Ebner family — not to be confused with the contemporary Bl. Margaret Ebner (1291–1351, Dominican mystic at the Convent of Medingen; unrelated by family).
At the age of 12 (1289), Christina entered the Dominican Convent of Engelthal near Nürnberg — spending her 67 years (until her death in 1356) at the Convent.
Christina became famous during her lifetime for her extensive mystical-ecstatic experiences and her literary-institutional legacy. She composed two principal works:
1. Büchlein von der Genaden Uberlast (Little Book of the Overflowing of Grace) — Middle High German vernacular autobiographical-mystical account of Christina's mystical-ecstatic experiences at the Convent of Engelthal.
2. The 'Engelthaler Schwesternbuch' (Sister-Book of Engelthal) — biographical accounts of the mystical-ecstatic experiences of the sister-nuns of Engelthal; one of the principal 14th-century Dominican women's-mystical collective-biographical texts, in institutional parallel with the contemporary Töss Sister-Book, Adelhausen Sister-Book, and Diessenhofen Sister-Book.
Christina received the visits of Bl. Henry Suso (1295–1366, Dominican mystical writer of Constance) at Engelthal — producing the famous Suso-Ebner spiritual-friendship correspondence that survives in the Suso corpus.
She died at Engelthal on December 27, 1356.